The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 176
mansions erected in the later days of the Tudors, and the more fortress-like structures exempli6ed in the large early castles evidentiv in-tended for the reception of a numerous but less powerful class thanthe retainers of the great barons. In the advancing improvement oftheir age, buildings of… … increosed internal accommodation by adding to the height of thebuilding, so as to present u small area only for defence. Buildings of (his class are very nuuerous; many of them beingfrequently seen at a view from the sam; point of sight, and particu-larly amid the best lands of the southern…
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